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Felicity Huffman
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Felicity Huffman (born December 9, 1962) is an Academy Award-nominated American film and television actress. Huffman became best-known to the general public after she started to portray Lynette Scavo on the ABC hit show Desperate Housewives in 2004. A year later, her role as a transwoman in the independent film Transamerica was praised by many critics and earnered her a Golden Globe Award.
Contents
- 1 Biography
- 1.1 Early life
- 1.2 Career
- 1.3 Private life
- 1.4 Trivia
- 2 Filmography
- 3 Awards & nominations
- 4 External links
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Biography
Early life
Felicity Huffman was born in New York. Her parents divorced a year after her birth, and she was raised mostly by her mother. She has 6 sisters. She graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan. After high school she went on to New York University where she graduated in 1988 from the Tisch School of the Arts, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama.
Career
Felicity Huffman is best known for her leading role as
Lynette Scavo in the television series
Desperate Housewives and her starring role in the 2005 film
Transamerica. Huffman also starred in the television
dramedy Sports Night, and has had guest starring roles on
Frasier,
The West Wing and
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. Huffman has also appeared in the films
Raising Helen and
Christmas with the Kranks.
Huffman won an Emmy for her work on Desperate Housewives (Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series), as well as two 2005 Screen Actors Guild Awards (Best Actress - Comedy Series and part of Best Ensemble - Comedy Series). Huffman's role as transsexual woman in the film Transamerica was praised by many critics and garnered her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress as well as nominations for the Best Actress (Screen Actors Guild) and Best Actress (Academy Awards). Huffman is now a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Huffman is also the author of the self-help book, A Practical Handbook for the Boyfriend.
Private life
Huffman is married to actor William H. Macy, with whom she has two daughters, Sofia Grace and Georgia Grace. She has also appeared on television, in movies, and on stage many times with her husband, such as on the TV show Sports Night and in the movie Magnolia. The couple have become the subject of a running gag on the satirical news show The Colbert Report, in which the couple (who live a quiet life outside the glaring media spotlight) are regularly referenced as representing the greatest of today's celebrity couples in a culture obsessed with celebs. Colbert refers to the couple as "Filliam H. Muffman", a play on the current trend by media types to combine the names of major celebrity couples, in the mold of "Bennifer", "Brangelina" and "TomKat." The segment is a fan favorite, especially because Colbert often breaks character by bursting into laughter.
In
2005, Huffman revealed that she had suffered from both
anorexia and
bulimia in her late teens and twenties.
[1] At the height of her bulimia she would purge up to six times a day. Her weight dropped to 98 lbs, her periods stopped, and she was too weak to go jogging. However, with therapy and upon meeting
Macy she managed to overcome those conditions. She is still known for her self-deprecating humor and her belief that she is "not pretty."
She is a huge fan of Tina Turner and her dream was to be a back-up singer, so when Huffman was on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Winfrey surprised her with a visit from Tina Turner where the two got to sing together.
Trivia
Filmography
Awards & nominations
Academy Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Emmy Awards
Independent Spirit Awards
- 2006: won for Best Female Lead -- Transamerica
National Board of Review
- 2005: won for Best Actress -- Transamerica
OBIE Award
- 1994-95: won for her performance as Donny in David Mamet's "Cryptogram"
Screen Actors Guild Awards
- 2000: nominated for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series -- Sports Night
- 2005: won for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series -- Desperate Housewives
- 2006: nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role -- Transamerica
- 2006: won for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series -- Desperate Housewives
- 2006: won for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series -- Desperate Housewives
- 2007: nominated for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series -- Desperate Housewives
- 2007: nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series -- Desperate Housewives
